I've got to say, Pearson's idea of a 'top quality outside back' is a lot different to mine.

Mine also but he can only be repeating what Motu/Radford tell him so who is to blame?

Well Radford was happy to let Crooks go because of his defensive weaknesses and often criticised Lineham's defence so I guess he must think Fonuha's defence is good enough.

bloody hell, have we now gone from crucifying a player when they sign for us but yet to play, to crucifying a player before they have even officially signed? its a wonder anyone signs for us

If a player looks on here for a true reflection of the fan base they're stupid!

It's unreal isn't it.

Yes, its a new phenomenon called Trial by Youtube!!

We could be signing inglis thurston smith & one of the Morris twins, they would be slated or the club would for not bringing Cronk & slater, I would like to see who some of our marwan koolcash fans would bring in with who's available & on the budget we have.

Its not the fault of the fans when the Chairman states we are close to signing two quality outside backs.
Pearson has probably not even seen the guys play so he must only be repeating what he is told by Motu/Radford.
It would be far better to simply say we are looking to sign two outside backs from the NRL but its Pearsons way of trying to excite fans into buying passes.
The same happened last season when it was stated we had signed an outside back, with real pace.
The same Steve Michaels who arrived has a bit of pace compared to the likes of Yeaman but shouldn't be classed as having real pace.

I'm not accusing any fans for recruiting, AP is a sales man he's going to say anything to sell passes, & I do believe he is doing the best for FC. He's got out of promising Wembley trips & certain league table finishes, because that does nothing for us, we've signed in the last 3 seasons some very good signings in Ellis, Sneyd,Taylor & Pritchard, there is no other big names available in the positions we need, so it's either an up & coming star or an over the hill journey man. With like I say who's available? Because believe me they've tried a very lot of agents & players on both sides of the globe, that fit into the cap & are professional athletes, we could have tried the Salford approach by breaking the cap, but it's not worked as it.

If he signs he'll go great here.
This isnt the NRL
hes only 22 so only going to improve in his shortcomings. A unit. Pretty fast. Pretty athletic and hard to stop from short distance. Could be part of a very fruitfull left side combo

It's not crucifying a player , It's giving a balanced to the opinion that he's a class signing . . Anyone can stick a montage of "good bits" together and expect their getting a top class signing when infact were not .
I also agree with 1865 about him playing centre with stats like those .

And who has copped a fair bit of criticism for it .

In all fairness , I hope he does .

Is it fonua or vidot or both do people think . We definatly need a winger and centre but we're is Carlos tui... Ear marked for ! If he's signed as rankins replacement , maybe we could sign both bad use fonua in the centres

Dane Nielsen signs for Bradford . Wasn't he a target for us once ?

Can I have that in writing?

Carlos is going to play left centre.

So we've signed Tuimavave and Fonua apparently signed Vidot and strongly linked with Inu, to go along with Talanoa and Michaels.

Can't see us signing Inu and Vidot but can see us maybe signing Inu. Despite 1865 saying Vidot was signed weeks ago.

Too many names banded about for a few places in the backs.

Dont forget Yeamans re-signed and weve got Lancaster and Logan too lol

Yeamo = back row if & when plays. Logan & Lancaster won't start every week not ready.

Yeaman is far too small for the back row.

Isn't he about the same size as Liam Farrell? People said Whiting didn't have the frame to play backrow.

As a backup he will be fine for a year.

Hits hard and runs hard so think he will go ok

Same size, yeah probably. As effective nope. We need to cut our losses with Yeamo time for someone new to take his place.